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In this article we study a hypothetical possibility of tracking the evolution of our Universe by introducing a series of the so-called standard timers. Any unstable primordial relics generated in the very early Universe may serve as the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-10-12 Yi-Fu Cai , Chao Chen , Qianhang Ding , Yi Wang

We show that the gravitational wave signals from primordial black hole (PBH) binaries at high redshift can be detected. The detectability of PBH binaries is enhanced by redshift bias and more PBH binaries at high redshift. The initial…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-08-25 Qianhang Ding

Primordial black hole (PBH) binaries experience strong gravitational perturbations in the case of their initial clustering, which significantly affects the dynamics of their mergers. In this work, we develop a new formalism to account for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2025-12-09 Viktor Stasenko

We propose that the merger rate of primordial black hole (PBH) binaries can be a probe of Hubble parameter by constraining PBH mass function in the redshifted mass distribution of PBH binaries. In next-generation gravitational wave (GW)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-05-13 Qianhang Ding

We propose a new scenario for the evolution of a binary of primordial black holes (PBHs). We consider a dynamical friction by ambient dark matter, scattering of dark matter particles with a highly eccentric orbit besides the standard…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-31 Kimitake Hayasaki , Keitaro Takahashi , Yuuiti Sendouda , Shigehiro Nagataki

We review the role of primordial black holes (PBHs) for illuminating the dark ages of the cosmological evolution and as dark matter (DM) candidates. We elucidate the role of phase transitions for primordial black hole formation in the early…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2026-04-15 Maël Gonin , Oleksii Ivanytskyi , David Blaschke , Günther Hasinger

We investigate the formation of primordial black holes (PBHs) induced by a first-order electroweak phase transition in a realistic renormalizable framework, the complex singlet extension of the Standard Model. We perform a quantitative…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-03-06 Fa Peng Huang , Chikako Idegawa , Aidi Yang

We in this paper investigate the formation and evolution of primordial black holes (PBHs) in nonsingular bouncing cosmologies. We discuss the formation of PBH in the contracting phase and calculate the PBH abundance as a function of the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2017-05-18 Jie-Wen Chen , Junyu Liu , Hao-Lan Xu , Yi-Fu Cai

Primordial Black Holes (PBH) can form in the early universe and might comprise a significant fraction of the dark matter. Interestingly, they are accompanied by the generation of Gravitational Wave (GW) signals and they could contribute to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2021-10-14 G. Franciolini

Recent detections of gravitational waves from merging binary black holes opened new possibilities to study the evolution of massive stars and black hole formation. In particular, stellar evolution models may be constrained on the basis of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-11 Irina Dvorkin , Jean-Philippe Uzan , Elisabeth Vangioni , Joseph Silk

Gravitational waves inform about the probable distances at which an observed signal originated. This information when combined over multiple observations is used in the modeling of the redshift evolution of the merger rate. This is an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-17 Vaibhav Tiwari

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are a profound signature of primordial cosmological structures and provide a theoretical tool to study nontrivial physics of the early Universe. The mechanisms of PBH formation are discussed and observational…

Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-18 M. Yu. Khlopov

In the recent years, primordial black holes (PBHs) have emerged as one of the most interesting and hotly debated topics in cosmology. Among other possibilities, PBHs could explain both some of the signals from binary black hole mergers…

The abundance of primordial black holes (PBHs) in the mass range $0.1 - 10^3 M_\odot$ can potentially be tested by gravitational wave observations due to the large merger rate of PBH binaries formed in the early universe. To put the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-03-01 Martti Raidal , Christian Spethmann , Ville Vaskonen , Hardi Veermäe

The Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) are gradually involved into consideration as the phenomenon having reliable basis. We discuss here the possibility of their agglomeration into clusters that may have several prominent observable features.…

Primordial black holes (PBHs) may form before cosmological first-order phase transitions, leading to inevitable collisions between PBHs and bubble walls. In this Letter, we have simulated for the first time the co-evolution of an expanding…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-05-26 Zi-Yan Yuwen , Cristian Joana , Shao-Jiang Wang , Rong-Gen Cai

Primordial black holes (PBHs) are an important tool in cosmology to probe the primordial spectrum of small-scale curvature perturbations that reenter the cosmological horizon during radiation domination epoch. We numerically solve the…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2014-01-31 Tomohiro Nakama , Tomohiro Harada , A. G. Polnarev , Jun'ichi Yokoyama

Primordial black holes (PBHs), possibly constituting a non-negligible fraction of dark matter (DM), might be responsible for a number of gravitational wave events detected by LIGO/Virgo/KAGRA. In this paper, we simulate the evolution of PBH…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-22 Muhsin Aljaf , Ilias Cholis

Primordial Black Holes (PBHs) represent one of the more interesting ways to address dark matter, at the interface of both cosmology and quantum gravity. It is no surprise then that testing PBHs is a venue of active interest, with several…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2026-03-17 Oem Trivedi , Abraham Loeb

It was recently suggested that the merger of $\sim30\,M_\odot$ primordial black holes (PBHs) may provide a significant number of events in gravitational-wave observatories over the next decade, if they make up an appreciable fraction of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-12 Ilias Cholis , Ely D. Kovetz , Yacine Ali-Haïmoud , Simeon Bird , Marc Kamionkowski , Julian B. Muñoz , Alvise Raccanelli
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